George Dodge was born in the year of 1869. He was a white male who was a Yankee who constantly did odd jobs. He was also a carpenter and a mason during his life. When he was interviewed in the year of 1939 by Rosalie Smith, he was 70 years old. He had told her about a lot of his memories that he had of his wife, who has passed away, and his companion dog, in which he really loved. Jacob Stein was a 58 year old male who was also another person being interviewed by B. Hathaway. He was titled as a theist. This interview was taken in New York, Union Square. The date of this interview was held on December 27, 1938.
Part 3A Group Work: As a group, we all have noticed that in the Great Depression many people struggled with life. Also, we noticed that many people in the Great Depression were racists and everything was based on white people and African Americans.
Christ Thorsten, was a Scandinavian and when he was asked in the interview of his job that was very tough, they responded with, " You aint an iron worker unless you get killed." Chris was an example of a hard working man back then. The date of this interview was January 31,1939 and the interviewer was Arnolg Manoff. Another interview, was about Irving Fajans, who worked as the department store employee in New York City. This took place in February 1939 and the interviewer was Mary Swenson. When she was asked if Macy's employees were unionized when she started working there, she said when he first started his job they were trying to get organized and "if you were caught distributing leaflets or other union literature around the job your were automatically fired." Back in the day it seems like jobs were really strict about how you handle things. Jobs back then were not that hard to find but your income wasn't steady at all.
A few more interviews that we learned about were, the interview about Mr. Garavelli, he was Italian. His job was a stone cutter. He lived in Barre, Vermont. His interviewer was John Lynch. There were a lot of stone cutters that died in Sicila. They have better equipment, "they got to use the suctions." Although, a lot of men died. It seems like kids that go to school are bad. In the Great Depression, many people did not have jobs and so they couldn't afford anything for themselves or for their family. These people who did have a job, wouldn't get paid a lot. Mr. Garavelli struggled with money and it hurt not being able to afford anything. Another interview about Alice Cauldes. Alice was a mill worker in Concord, North Carolina. The date was September 2, 1938. Her interviewer was Muriel L. Wolff. Her story was she was born in a mill. She started as a mill worker at the age 10.She was so little that she had to stand on a box to do her work. She was a spinner at first and then she learned how to spool. However, once they got new winding machines, she asked the other workers to help her learn and she did.
A moving interview was about Anna Novak, she was a house worker. She was born in Wisconsin, about 30 years ago. She is married with two boys, ages 10 and 13. Her education occurred when she was in 8th grade and one year and a half of high school in St. Hedwig's Orphanage. She was located in Chicago Illinois The date was April 25-27, 1939. Her interviewer was Betty Burke. Anna's story was that she had to work 8 years of the 'yards.' She says that it is a lot different now because of the union. They used to buy presents for the holidays. It says, "you'd see the men coming to work with hip pockets bulging and take the foremen off in corners, handing over their half pints." You can get along good if you let your boss slap you in your behind, for this reason she would want to work anywhere else but the stockyards because she didn't want her boss to be psychical with her. I think this resembles a lot in the Great Depression, things were not fair at all and if that were to happen today than things would be out of control.
The Great Depression made our group realize that everything was about whether you had a good job or if you were white, or African American. We all imagined what it would be like if this continued into life today. We probably wouldn't have as much friends and we wouldn't have freedom like we do now. All of these interviews made us think how people had to deal with it. We find it really difficult to imagine what it would be like but, knowing that there were seperate bathrooms for white ladies and black ladies, made us more cautious about how lucky we are. Part 3B Group Work:
The Great Depression was a tragic period of time in the American history. The feelings we have toward all of these interview stories are tremendous. As a group, we discussed how it would be like to live in their shoes. A few interviews that we have read were The Armisteads, W. Leonidas Cockrell, Aunt Amy, Jim Davis, and Jesse Owens.
The interviews were a little different. This time they had a lot of inormation about their personal life and how they lived specifally. One interview was about a large family, the Armisteads. The Armisteads they were a big family, where the father owned 40 acres of land. Their whole family is Daisy Purnell Webb was born February 11th, 1880, at East Bend, Clarke County, Alabama. She was the daughter of Sydney Vaughan and Josephine E. Webb, was one of nine children, she had four sisters, Mary, Jessie, Anna, and Telula, four brothers, Sydney, Thomas, Lucius and Henry. Their interview took place in Groove Hill, Alabama. It took place around the 1850s. Annie Web interviewed this large family. Their house was always neat. Both parents had college education. It says, "John P. Armistead, who was born at Morvin, Clarke County, Alabama, September 18th, 1861, he was a small man, with black hair, dark eyes and dark complexion, he was a widower with five children, three boys, Eddie, John and Roy, two girls, Mamie and Annie Earle." This interviewer seemed really lucky because I've noticed all of the stories we read, we haven't read about anyone that went to college. In addition, another interview was about W. Leonidas Cockrell. He was a farm owner who is a male. This interviewer took place in Livingston, Alabama route 3. The date that this interview took place was approximately in September 14, 1838. His interviewer was Luther Clark.
A job and money is all people really focused on in the Great Depression. One man by the name of Jim Davis first went into law, then went to go work at Tombigee Lake for six month, then after that he did small thngs around his home such as painting, gardening, and housecleaning. Jobs back then are nothing like life today. Today, we have jobs for being a teacher, a doctor, all sorts of things.Jim Davis is a British man (born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indie). Jim Davis is probably in his 60s or 70s because it says in the interview that he was a grey-haired man. Another interview was about Jesse Owens, who was an Olympian runner. He was born in Alabama and one of eight kids. He is African American and he was most likely to be in his early 20s. This interview was taken in Macon County. The date of this interview was April 22, 1939. The interviewer was Rhussus L. Perry.
One more interviews were about Amy Chapman.The one being interviewed was Aunt Amy who works in the Cotton Fields. Aunt Amy is living in Livingston, Alabama and the interview took place in September, 28, 1938 by Ruby Pickens Tartt. In the story it says, "When I heard that she was ill and went to her house to see if I could do anything for her, her son Hewey showed me a box of sweet potatoes washed clean of dirt which she had dug for me. And I remembered the last time I had seen her when I had taken her home in my car she had insisted against all my protests that she would bring me some potatoes soon for my kindness to her. Even in her illness she had thought to tell Hewey to be sure to give them to me." This shows that she was kind and caring.
In the Great Depression, so many people were affected by being unemployed Also, many people were judged, whether you were white or black everything was sepearte. The whites couldn't be seen with the blacks and the blacks couldn't be seen with the whites. There were so many types of discrimination back then and none of us could believe how life would be like today if that still continued.
Part 4: Town name: Poor Man's Land.
There once was a town called Poor Man's Land. It's where all the poor people lived and the land was bland. The population wasn't so jammed. There wasn't a lot of cash in the hands. The people lived on farms with lambs and rams.
Even the little felt pain. People suffered in all sorts of weather. Heat, cold, and rain. Some people were light as a feather. There wasn't a lot of knowledge left in the brain.
The town was so poor they had no money. They were so poor, many people couldn't lay hands on a knob. To them it wasn't funny. The people in this town had no jobs. They sat around all day long waiting for the depression to end.
Part 3A Group Work:
As a group, we all have noticed that in the Great Depression many people struggled with life. Also, we noticed that many people in the Great Depression were racists and everything was based on white people and African Americans.
Christ Thorsten, was a Scandinavian and when he was asked in the interview of his job that was very tough, they responded with, " You aint an iron worker unless you get killed." Chris was an example of a hard working man back then. The date of this interview was January 31,1939 and the interviewer was Arnolg Manoff. Another interview, was about Irving Fajans, who worked as the department store employee in New York City. This took place in February 1939 and the interviewer was Mary Swenson. When she was asked if Macy's employees were unionized when she started working there, she said when he first started his job they were trying to get organized and "if you were caught distributing leaflets or other union literature around the job your were automatically fired." Back in the day it seems like jobs were really strict about how you handle things. Jobs back then were not that hard to find but your income wasn't steady at all.
A few more interviews that we learned about were, the interview about Mr. Garavelli, he was Italian. His job was a stone cutter. He lived in Barre, Vermont. His interviewer was John Lynch. There were a lot of stone cutters that died in Sicila. They have better equipment, "they got to use the suctions." Although, a lot of men died. It seems like kids that go to school are bad. In the Great Depression, many people did not have jobs and so they couldn't afford anything for themselves or for their family. These people who did have a job, wouldn't get paid a lot. Mr. Garavelli struggled with money and it hurt not being able to afford anything. Another interview about Alice Cauldes. Alice was a mill worker in Concord, North Carolina. The date was September 2, 1938. Her interviewer was Muriel L. Wolff. Her story was she was born in a mill. She started as a mill worker at the age 10.She was so little that she had to stand on a box to do her work. She was a spinner at first and then she learned how to spool. However, once they got new winding machines, she asked the other workers to help her learn and she did.
A moving interview was about Anna Novak, she was a house worker. She was born in Wisconsin, about 30 years ago. She is married with two boys, ages 10 and 13. Her education occurred when she was in 8th grade and one year and a half of high school in St. Hedwig's Orphanage. She was located in Chicago Illinois The date was April 25-27, 1939. Her interviewer was Betty Burke. Anna's story was that she had to work 8 years of the 'yards.' She says that it is a lot different now because of the union. They used to buy presents for the holidays. It says, "you'd see the men coming to work with hip pockets bulging and take the foremen off in corners, handing over their half pints." You can get along good if you let your boss slap you in your behind, for this reason she would want to work anywhere else but the stockyards because she didn't want her boss to be psychical with her. I think this resembles a lot in the Great Depression, things were not fair at all and if that were to happen today than things would be out of control.
The Great Depression made our group realize that everything was about whether you had a good job or if you were white, or African American. We all imagined what it would be like if this continued into life today. We probably wouldn't have as much friends and we wouldn't have freedom like we do now. All of these interviews made us think how people had to deal with it. We find it really difficult to imagine what it would be like but, knowing that there were seperate bathrooms for white ladies and black ladies, made us more cautious about how lucky we are.
Part 3B Group Work:
The Great Depression was a tragic period of time in the American history. The feelings we have toward all of these interview stories are tremendous. As a group, we discussed how it would be like to live in their shoes. A few interviews that we have read were The Armisteads, W. Leonidas Cockrell, Aunt Amy, Jim Davis, and Jesse Owens.
The interviews were a little different. This time they had a lot of inormation about their personal life and how they lived specifally. One interview was about a large family, the Armisteads. The Armisteads they were a big family, where the father owned 40 acres of land. Their whole family is Daisy Purnell Webb was born February 11th, 1880, at East Bend, Clarke County, Alabama. She was the daughter of Sydney Vaughan and Josephine E. Webb, was one of nine children, she had four sisters, Mary, Jessie, Anna, and Telula, four brothers, Sydney, Thomas, Lucius and Henry. Their interview took place in Groove Hill, Alabama. It took place around the 1850s. Annie Web interviewed this large family. Their house was always neat. Both parents had college education. It says, "John P. Armistead, who was born at Morvin, Clarke County, Alabama, September 18th, 1861, he was a small man, with black hair, dark eyes and dark complexion, he was a widower with five children, three boys, Eddie, John and Roy, two girls, Mamie and Annie Earle." This interviewer seemed really lucky because I've noticed all of the stories we read, we haven't read about anyone that went to college. In addition, another interview was about W. Leonidas Cockrell. He was a farm owner who is a male. This interviewer took place in Livingston, Alabama route 3. The date that this interview took place was approximately in September 14, 1838. His interviewer was Luther Clark.
A job and money is all people really focused on in the Great Depression. One man by the name of Jim Davis first went into law, then went to go work at Tombigee Lake for six month, then after that he did small thngs around his home such as painting, gardening, and housecleaning. Jobs back then are nothing like life today. Today, we have jobs for being a teacher, a doctor, all sorts of things.Jim Davis is a British man (born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indie). Jim Davis is probably in his 60s or 70s because it says in the interview that he was a grey-haired man. Another interview was about Jesse Owens, who was an Olympian runner. He was born in Alabama and one of eight kids. He is African American and he was most likely to be in his early 20s. This interview was taken in Macon County. The date of this interview was April 22, 1939. The interviewer was Rhussus L. Perry.
One more interviews were about Amy Chapman.The one being interviewed was Aunt Amy who works in the Cotton Fields. Aunt Amy is living in Livingston, Alabama and the interview took place in September, 28, 1938 by Ruby Pickens Tartt. In the story it says, "When I heard that she was ill and went to her house to see if I could do anything for her, her son Hewey showed me a box of sweet potatoes washed clean of dirt which she had dug for me. And I remembered the last time I had seen her when I had taken her home in my car she had insisted against all my protests that she would bring me some potatoes soon for my kindness to her. Even in her illness she had thought to tell Hewey to be sure to give them to me." This shows that she was kind and caring.
In the Great Depression, so many people were affected by being unemployed Also, many people were judged, whether you were white or black everything was sepearte. The whites couldn't be seen with the blacks and the blacks couldn't be seen with the whites. There were so many types of discrimination back then and none of us could believe how life would be like today if that still continued.
Part 4:
Town name: Poor Man's Land.
There once was a town called Poor Man's Land.
It's where all the poor people lived and the land was bland.
The population wasn't so jammed.
There wasn't a lot of cash in the hands.
The people lived on farms with lambs and rams.
Even the little felt pain.
People suffered in all sorts of weather.
Heat, cold, and rain.
Some people were light as a feather.
There wasn't a lot of knowledge left in the brain.
The town was so poor they had no money.
They were so poor, many people couldn't lay hands on a knob.
To them it wasn't funny.
The people in this town had no jobs.
They sat around all day long waiting for the depression to end.